Statistics for Virginia Independent Cities - With Hints

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 11 times
The average score is 24 of 38

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe both lived here	Charlottesville	100%
Site and namesake of the first major Civil War battle	Manassas	100%
Home to the largest naval base in the world	Norfolk	100%
The state capital	Richmond	100%
Home to many retirees; popular vacation destination	Virginia Beach	100%
Second colonial capital of Virginia	Williamsburg	100%
Home to Liberty University	Lynchburg	90%
Named for an English captain	Newport News	90%
Largest city in Virginia west of #4	Roanoke	90%
Contains part of the Great Dismal Swamp	Chesapeake	80%
Home to the oldest Anglican parish in the country	Hampton	80%
Site of a famous Civil War siege	Petersburg	80%
Named after an English "port" city	Portsmouth	80%
Shares its name with an ancient Macedonian conqueror	Alexandria	70%
The last capital of the Confederate States of America	Danville	70%
Shares its name with the county surrounding it	Fairfax	70%
Home to James Madison University	Harrisonburg	70%
Planter's Peanuts was established here in 1912	Suffolk	70%
Namesake of a famous firearms manufacturer	Winchester	70%
Called "The Birthplace of Country Music"	Bristol	60%
Named after a shrub with heart-shaped leaves	Galax	60%
Named for the first "battle" of the American Revolution	Lexington	60%
"Beautiful view" in Spanish	Buena Vista	50%
Named for the inventor of the lightning rod	Franklin	50%
Similar to #14, but with an added word	Manassas Park	50%
Its name is an Algonquin term that means "Great Marsh"	Poquoson	50%
Home to a university of the same name	Radford	50%
Named after a city in Kansas	Emporia	40%
Named after a historic Episcopal church	Falls Church	40%
Named after King George III's father	Fredericksburg	40%
Named after a general in the Revolutionary War	Martinsville	40%
John McAfee was raised here	Salem	40%
Birthplace of President Woodrow Wilson	Staunton	40%
Named after a Revolutionary War action in which the Marquis de Lafayette took part	Colonial Heights	30%
Renamed in 1794 after a famous Revolutionary War General	Waynesboro	30%
Namesake of a large city on the Ohio River in Kentucky	Covington	20%
Site of an odious paper mill; also the site of Ulysses Grant's headquarters during the campaign for #16	Hopewell	20%
Located on the Wilderness Trail blazed by Daniel Boone	Norton	20%